Since the Dutch trio of producers Kraak & Smaak released their first album … Read Full Bio ↴Since the Dutch trio of producers Kraak & Smaak released their first album 'Boogie Angst' worldwide in 2005, the act has steadily grown into a well-respected force in today's international producers, club and festival scene.

Their set-up, combining the club sound of their releases with live musicians and vocalists, turned out to be a musical phenomenon on the Dutch circuit, leading to invitations to play at Europe’s festivals and renowned USA hotspots like SXSW, Coachella, Miami's WMC and New York's CMJ.

The second album 'Plastic People' dropped in 2008, and off that album, the hit single 'Squeeze Me', made for an even more rapid international rise of K&S. The acclaimed UK dance magazine IDJ labelled K&S as a “Must see live act”, together with big guns as the Chemical Brothers, Moby and The Prodigy. The band subsequently performed at the 'holy grail of festivals' Glastonbury in the UK, Lowlands in the Netherlands and again Europe's biggest festival, Sziget. During a five-week live tour across the USA they performed at Jimmy Kimmel's late night show on ABC television and further explicit support came from US Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, who describes K&S as ‘Amy Winehouse meets Moby’. Even Kanye West declared himself a fan! And to top things off, the European Border Breakers Award (EBBA) is won, together with none other than Adele.

In the following years, the upward trend of K&S is continued and solidified with the albums 'Electric Hustle' (2011) and 'Chrome Waves' (2013). A grueling schedule of international touring includes career highlight shows at Detroit Movement, Sziget, Glastonbury and Exit, and key single releases in this period include “Let’s Go Back” which features a superb vocal from the sadly departed Romanthony, The Future Is Yours” (which saw the band hook up a second time with Ben Westbeech who at the time was hitting the top of the charts under his Breach guise), and the soulful “How We Gonna Stop The Time” - an instant club hit that went on to be licensed for release on Axtone Records. New remix work comes through for Moby, Aretha Franklin, Chromatics, and Royksopp, and 2015 sees a one-off single release on Spinnin’ Records.

The 5th album, Juicy Fruit, released in 2016, has seen them returning to the more organic sound of their debut record. As usual it contains some heavyweight collaborations, including Americans Mayer Hawthorne and Eric Biddines, and Australians Parcels and Cleopold to name just a few. In the US, initial support comes from KCRW (Top Tune #1 for ‘Hands of Time’) and a #2 position in the College radio CMJ / RPM charts for I’ Don’t Know Why’ . The latter track, also also gets picked up by the Jimmy Kimmel show band, and the track ’Stumble’ reaches a #1 position in Hype Machine’s Most Popular list.

A string of new international live and dj dates followed, with performances in countries in West- and Eastern-Europe, the Americas and Asia, topping it all off with an extensive tour in the USA and again a live show on 2017’s Glastonbury.
Coinciding with their busy touring schedule Kraak & Smaak have also just released their album “Juicy Fruit Remixed”, with input from Eli Escobar, Fouk, Purple Disco Machine, Moods and Thatmanmonkz among others, to give a new fresh outlook on the tracks by producers they admire.
Moreover, they have found some time to work on new material themselves as well: new singles ‘Hendo’ and 'Scorched' have recently been released on the Exploited and Spinnin' Deep labels, and more is coming later this year for labels such as Future Disco.

Money In The bag
Kraak & Smaak Lyrics

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Let me tell you 'bout my date last night
'Cause everything really were right
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to brag
But it was just money in the bag
I said money in the bag

She said I never had a lover like you
Boy you know just what to do

And then I did it so many times
She started singing nursery rhymes
She said

Uh ah baby
Uh ah baby
Uh ah
Uh ah
Uh ah
Uh ah
Uh ah

Let me tell you 'bout my date last night
'Cause everything really were right
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to brag
But it was just money in the bag
I said money in the bag

She said I never had a lover like you
Boy you know just what to do
And then I did it so many times
She started singing nursery rhymes
She said

Uh ah baby
Uh ah baby
Uh ah baby
Uh ah
Uh ah baby
Uh ah baby
Money in the bag
Money in the bag

Money in the bag
I said money in the bag

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Kraak & Smaak's song Money in the Bag are those of a man who is bragging about his successful date the night before. He starts by saying that everything was right about the date and that he doesn't want to brag, but it was just "money in the bag." This phrase implies that he was confident from the beginning that the date would be successful and that he had all the right moves to make it happen.

The woman he was on a date with also praises him, saying that she has never had a lover like him and that he knows just what to do. The repeated "Uh ah baby" in the chorus adds to the overall upbeat and playful nature of the song, and the woman even starts singing nursery rhymes because of the pleasure she's experiencing.

Overall, Money in the Bag is a lighthearted and fun song about successful dating and sexual prowess. It portrays a confidence and swagger that many people can relate to when they feel they have found the perfect match.

Line by Line Meaning

Let me tell you 'bout my date last night
I want to share with you my experience from last night with my date

'Cause everything really were right
Everything went so right and perfect

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to brag
I don't want to come across as boastful, but

But it was just money in the bag
It was so easy and successful, like I've already achieved my desired outcome

I said money in the bag
I repeated that it was like money in the bag, effortless and done

She said I never had a lover like you
My date expressed that I'm unlike anyone she has ever been with

Boy you know just what to do
She felt that I was able to please her and fulfill her desires

And then I did it so many times
I was able to satisfy her multiple times

She started singing nursery rhymes
She was so pleased that she playfully sang childhood songs

Uh ah baby
An expression of pleasure and satisfaction

Money in the bag
Reiterating that the experience was like easily getting the desired outcome

Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: MIKE CLEVELAND, OSCAR DE JONG, MARK KNEPPERS, WIM PLUG, MARK MARKUS P KNEPPERS, OSCAR R JONG DE, WIM WILLEM A PLUG, OSCAR MAYM JONG DE

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